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If coyotes could fly, well, maybe they would pose fewer problems on the ground. Coyotes were involved in at least 28 aviation incidents at four airports around B.C. over the last 12 months, according to a Postmedia review of Transport Canada files. Twelve of those incidents occurred at Vancouver International Airport — more than anywhere […]

When you spend time engaged in 100 kilometre per hour dives and fly 50 km/h in tight spaces you tend to see the world a little differently. Hummingbirds can move as fast as your car and stop on a dime to feed from a flower, which requires some specialized image processing abilities, according to Roslyn […]

COOMBS — Hundreds of parrots living at a Vancouver Island sanctuary need new homes as an Aug. 1 deadline approaches for the closure of the World Parrot Refuge. Between 450 and 500 parrots, including macaws, cockatoos, lovebirds and conures, are up for adoption, following the death last February of refuge founder Wendy Huntbatch. “After Wendy’s passing, […]

Canada is listing nine B.C. species under the Species at Risk Act for the first time, ranging from a fly found in the South Okanagan to a lichen found in older forests within the Rocky Mountain Trench. The federal decision follows the recommendations of a national group of scientific experts, the Committee on the Status of […]

A Delta turf farm that receives regional food waste for composting has a federal "damage or danger" permit that allows the use of firearms to harass and kill scores of nuisance gulls per year attracted to the operation.

MERRITT, B.C. -- Burrowing owls will be released on First Nations land for the first time in British Columbia with the goal of reintroducing the endangered yellow-eyed birds on a reserve near Merritt.
Bernadette Manuel of the Upper Nicola Band said three pairs of the pop-can sized brown and white owls will be released into burrows that have been built for them.
"We see it as a responsibility as stewards of the land," she said Friday of the federally funded project the band undertook over two years in partnership with species-at-risk biologists and the Burrowing Owl Conservation Society of BC.

The annual spring bloom of microscopic algae coinciding with the migration of hundreds of thousands of western sandpipers could pose a roadblock for Port Metro Vancouver’s planned $2-billion expansion at Roberts Bank in South Delta.

Until a young buck with its own Twitter handle swam across Burrard Inlet to Stanley Park last year (and then got killed by a car later in the summer), there had not been any black-tailed deer living in Vancouver proper for more than 30 years.

The art deco Marine Building is arguably the most beautiful building in Vancouver, the local equivalent of the Chrysler or Empire State buildings in New York. The elegant symmetry of the 21-storey tower at Burrard and Hastings is simply breathtaking, its white terra cotta trim providing the perfect accent to its brown brick body.

The Nightingale Sings He’s kept it hush-hush for a long time, but here it finally is: David Hawksworth’s new restaurant will be called Nightingale, opening this spring at 1017 West Hastings in the new MNP Tower. (The restaurant is still under construction.) The menu will offer “honest and unpretentious dishes that showcase local ingredients with global influences,” he says. “Our modern Canadian cuisine delivers options catered to the way that people want to eat today. There are choices of share plates, house-made pastas, creative wood-fired pizzas, salads and seasonal vegetable dishes as well as accompaniments such as charcuterie and crudo.”

Albert Shamess thought he was accepting a job as director of waste management for the City of Vancouver in 2012. He didn’t know he was also becoming manager of one of Canada’s most prolific, if unconventional, bird habitats. “It’s pretty interesting, not what you normally think of for a landfill,” he says while taking The Vancouver Sun on a safari-style tour through the city’s 225-hectare garbage dump at Burns Bog in Delta.

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